Color wheel and shading

1. I really enjoyed creating the value scale and the color wheel. I had fun working with the charcoal and the acrylic paints. I never made a color wheel before and think mine turned out pretty well.
2. I enjoyed working with the acrylic paint the best. I paint ceramics and have tons of colors and really love painting, but it was different painting on a flat piece of paper for a change. I love mixing the colors and seeing what you will get.
3. I think that the most important discovery in the creation of these studies was that you can create value and color variation with any medium, wet or dry.
4. The most important information that I learned in watching the videos is that blue yellow and red are in fact NOT the primary colors and that cyan, magenta and yellow are the true primary colors. I like how the video showed the color wheel using what most people are taught and then using the real primary colors, it is definitely quite a distinct difference.

Project #1: Photobucket slide show

This is my slideshow of the 14 elements and principles.

     The image of shape is a leaf floating in the water; I took this for shape because I thought the flat shape and color against the background of the water emphasized the points of the leaf.
     The next image is for balance. It is a dish called "arroz chaufa", or chinese rice. The serving sits center of the plate and is very symmetrical.
     For proportion, although I took this photo in the beginning of June when I went to Peru to visit family. It is a picture of the little town where my mom was born and raised called Bolognesi. I can remember thinking how tiny the village looked against the towering mountainous landscape. Even though I didn't know it at the time, I was taking a photo with a principle of design in mind.
     This is also a picture from when I was in Peru of my cousin's Macaw. I also remember thinking how bright the colors were of the bird and how he stands out from everything around him because of the color of his feathers.
     For emphasis, I used a photograph of my cousin in Peru's monkey. I thought this was a good picture for emphasis because I remember wanting to get up close to the monkey so he could be the focus of my photograph.
     For rhythm I used a picture of place settings at a party; the place settings at all of the numerous seats are exactly the same, forming a pattern.
     In the value photograph, I took a picture of the different shades of the clouds in the sky.
     For variety, I placed a flower amongst pebbles to break up the monotony of the grey.
     The shape/form photo is a picture of large boulders, something with an organic shape.
     For unity I used a photograph of a small man-made waterfall and it's surroundings. The scene gave me a sense of peace/quiet tranquility and its surroundings come together well.
     For texture as I was walking along a path outside I saw this strange looking flower-type plant that had these little berries all over it. The "bubbles" that make up the flower are clearly defined and has a bumpy texture to it.
     The trees in my space photo are far apart with nothing but field in between, showing the negative space where there is the distance between them.
     For lines I took a picture of the inside of a shelter at a park; the straight lines of the wood are clearly defined.
     For my last picture, movement, I took a picture of my friend as we were finishing a 5k mud race. You can tell that she is running by the splashing of the water as she ran toward the finish line, and she is in midstride, depicting her in action.     

Color-Week 3 Post

1. Color and it's effects on emotions
          Color is probably the visual element that gives us the most pleasure. Almost everybody has a favorite color, a color that they are drawn to.
          Color can have a powerful effect on a person's body and brain in many ways. Many studies have found that color affects a wide range of our phsychological and physiological responses. For example: red is said to increase appetite, blue is said to lower bloodpressure, pulse, and respiration rate. Color can have a culturally conditioned response (green light means go) as well as a deeply personal response .

2. The thing about color theory that intrigues me the most is the fact that nothing is actually a color. The way I see it, things are every other color BUT the one we percieve it to be. The reason I look at it this way is because when we see a red object for example, the object is not red in and of itself, but it is absorbing all of the other colors in the light spectrum except red, and reflecting the red, therefore that is the color that we see. I have herad this time and again ever since I was doing art in elementary school but it always seems to fascinate me.

3. The thing that made the biggest impact on me in regards to color and its effect on emotions in the Color video was the fact that when June was talking about her finished painting and it was showed, she talks about the feeling and emotion that Venice evoked in her. She wasn't looking to capture the exact image of Venice, but the emotions it made her feel. She talks about how psychological and emotional color is, and I agree with her, and her kind of painting is something that could evoke different emotions from different people because different people can associate one color with a multitude of different emotions.

4. In the feelings video, the thing that made the biggest impact on me in regards to color and its effect on emotions was much of David's work, especially the Oath of Horatio; when the speaker goes into detail about the painting and gives you a little bit of background and then says now pretend you didn't know that, what would you see? The emotion that the painting conveys by using color to make the painting so lifelike and very realistic makes you feel the tenseness and almost desperation of the warriors in the painting. The shadows darken the painting, which darken the mood and make you feel the sense of doom and gloom. Noble virtue was the mind of the French Revolution, and David did a fantastic job immortalizing that emotion.